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Sat down over against the treasury (kathisas katenanti tou gazophulakiou). The storm is over. The Pharisees, Sadducees, Herodians, scribes, have all slunk away in terror ere the closing words. Mark draws this immortal picture of the weary Christ sitting by the treasury (compound word in the lxx from gaza, Persian word for treasure, and phulakē, guard, so safe for gifts to be deposited).
Beheld (etheōrei). Imperfect tense. He was watching how the multitude cast money (pōs ho ochlos ballei) into the treasury. The rich were casting in (eballon, imperfect tense) as he watched.